diktat

• “Therefore i suggest you state due to an immediate Police priority you have concluded that in this case that discrestional avoidance of the aforementioned H&S diktat is necessary.”

  Nanny Knows Best « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “A "diktat" -- let's start spelling it right -- is an "authoritative or dogmatic statement or decree.”

  Archive 2006-06-01

• “The diktat is the latest cultural control slapped on broadcasters in what is a highly sensitive political year for China.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph

• “There was no appeal against the Earl's diktat, which is evidence of the vast powers he had over the hoi polloi.”

  Whitehaven News headlines

• “Maybe I was reading too deeply into things due to the time I had spent on the Pure Romance site, but I couldn't help thinking that the Great Head trail map looked a lot like a "diktat:”

  Distractions: Head-On Collisions

• “If this problem is not dealt with and resolved, there is really nothing to discuss, there is nothing but to bend the knee before the "diktat" of Hanoi and Moscow.”

  Cambodia in Modern History: Beauty and Darkness

• “And in case you didn't notice, he also throws in a Communist term "diktat" so you dummies will be totally repulsed and imagine Stalin lurking.”

  Timothy Karr: Telcos Turn to Stalin for Help Against Net Neutrality

• “The new "diktat" lets the FBI conduct investigations up to a year without having to show suspicion of criminal activity.”

  Reviewing Marjorie Cohn's "Cowboy Republic"

• “Diplomats say that France has taken such a strong stand because it objects to Washington's "diktat" at the United Nations which led to the brutal dropping of support for Boutros-Ghali six months ago.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “They were suspended for four years for beating up Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi for not following their leader Raj Thackeray's "diktat" of taking oath as MLA in Marathi.”

  Daily News & Analysis

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